Florida marine life blog and custom stationery store
When I began writing this blog about seashells I did so hoping to sell paper products containing my seashell photography, like the card below. I lived in New Hampshire at the time, which is funny because my shells had been collected when I lived in Florida. But my Zazzle business, and especially my seashell and […]
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It’s tough to write a seashell blog without photos of seashells. The best way to have those photos is to take them myself. This was impossible for me to do when I lived in New Hampshire, where I lived when I began this blog. Well, not totally impossible. I had a seashell collection from my […]
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Often I will pick up interesting pieces of seashells while beach-combing. I’m getting better at identifying the pieces. The more variety of shells I collect, the easier it becomes. If the bit of shell baffles me at the seashore, I search it out in my favorite seashell book, or look through my seashell collection. Seashells […]
Read More…Pen shells (family Pinnidae) are usually gray or brown in color with an iridescent sheen. They are long and tapered in a triangular shape and most of the ones I’ve seen were on the east coast beaches in Florida. They can be huge! My resource book says up to thirty-one inches in length! But […]
Read More…I don’t live on Sanibel Island and I haven’t even visited the Island in Florida for almost 20 years, but fortunately I know of a great blogger who lives there and shares her shelling knowledge with the world. Recently she posted some photos of four small, similar-looking seashells that she had collected from the beach […]
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Pictures and information about the lightning whelk marine snail which is a rarely found sinistral shell.
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